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OVER 250 TERROR ATTACKS PRE-EMPTED IN SCO COUNTRIES IN 2005
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Over 250 terror attacks were pre- empted in countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in 2005, Vyacheslav Kasymov, Executive Committee Director of the SCO\'s Regional Anti-Terror Agency, said. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Hizb-ut-Tahrir, besides al Qaeda, are listed as terror organizations in five of the SCO\'s countries, Kasymov told the press after a meeting of the Agency\'s Council in Tashkent on Wednesday. The SCO is comprised of Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.UZBEK PRESIDENT VISITS SOUTH KOREA
By empty (3/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbek President Islam Karimov and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun signed a strategic partnership declaration in Seoul on March 29, Uzbek television reported. The visit also produced a number of South Korean investment initiatives, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported. South Korea\'s National Oil Corporation (KNOC) and Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Uzbek state oil and gas company Uzbekneftegaz to explore, and possibly develop, two oil and two gas fields in Uzbekistan.HEAD OF KYRGYZ PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION WINS LIBEL CASE AGAINST EX-PRESIDENT\'S WIFE
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Usen Sydykov, head of the Kyrgyz presidential administration, on March 30 won a libel case against Mairam Akaeva, wife of former President Askar Akaev, and a Kyrgyz newspaper. A court in Bishkek ruled that Akaeva will have to pay Sydykov compensation of 50,000 soms ($1,200), while the newspaper \"Bely parakhod\" will have to pay 10,000 soms ($250). Sydykov sued after Akaeva claimed in an article that Sydykov was one of the main organizers of a campaign against the Akaev family.KARABAKH CONCERNED ABOUT VIOLATIONS OF CEASEFIRE
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The Foreign Ministry of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has expressed concern over increasingly frequent violations of the ceasefire by the Azeri military. \"Violations at the disengagement line by the Azeri military have become regular lately and instances of shooting were reported during monitoring missions,\" the Azeri Foreign Ministry said in a statement circulated in Stepanakert on Thursday. \"These actions directly derive from Azerbaijan\'s continuing inflammatory rhetoric, which, however, has not been adequately assessed by the countries and organizations concerned,\" the statement reads.Visit also
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